The new plot has all the appeal of a seaweed sandwich, being dark, salty, and indigestible.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:15
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Gone is Depp's unpredictability and much of the humor and originality of the first movie.
Theatrical Release:Jul 7, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $423,032,628
Synopsis: The second part of a trilogy, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST is a fantastic tale of pirates, love, and the supernatural. Blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and his upper-class love... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Top CriticThis second film is pretty much all thrills, special effects and nonstop action -- but with virtually no cohesive or compelling story line.
07/07/06
Top Critic'Complications arose, ensued, were overcome,' Jack says at one point. Not entirely, but Dead Man's Chest is worth weighing anchor for, regardless.
07/07/06
Top CriticIn every other way -- as adventure yarn or as satire on that form or merely as an enjoyable entertainment featuring a wonderfully sly and subtle actor -- it is not merely a loser. It is a disaster.
07/07/06
Top CriticFor the most part, Dead Man's Chest stands on its own and even makes a few halfhearted attempts to say something.
07/07/06
Top CriticThe second Pirates of the Caribbean movie is a sweet umbrella drink leaving no hangover, two hours and 20 minutes of escapism that once again makes the movies safe for guilt-free fun.
07/07/06
Top CriticCalling a summer movie 'action-packed' is supposed to be a compliment, but there's nothing so tedious as nonstop excitement.
07/06/06
Top CriticIt's often unclear what's going on, beyond a zillion dollars of splashy effects washing over the screen.
07/06/06
Top CriticAll of it evidently based on another notion, that great length equals great importance.
07/06/06
Top CriticAlthough there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling.
07/06/06
Top CriticA bustling sequel that outperforms its predecessor as a special-effects extravaganza but one that can't match the feeling of discovery that came with the original.
07/06/06
Top CriticMr. Verbinski is an extremely skilled traffic director.
07/06/06
Top CriticYes, it's brightly colored carnival fun. But this ride, in the end, only goes round and round and round. Which is ultimately more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho.
07/06/06
Top CriticIt's like an amusement park excursion where the entry fee is so high you feel compelled to stay until you get a stomachache to get your money's worth.
07/06/06
Top CriticIt's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.
07/06/06
Top CriticThe director, Gore Verbinski, has grown more adept at Spielberg-style action, in which the fun is as much in the elegance of the staging as the stunts.
07/06/06
Top CriticThis chest is overfilled with exposition and physical comedy, without a doubloon's worth of the scary suspense that made the laughs in the first one such brilliant comic relief.
07/06/06
Top CriticRum, monotony and the lash.
07/06/06
Top CriticWhen you find out at the end that what you've just seen is merely the overture to yet another sequel, you can't help wondering what more can be extracted from this franchise. Gold, me hearties, more gold!
07/06/06
Top CriticAt two hours and 30 minutes, the story has its repetitive and wearisome passages, and the plot emerges only to bog things down, but for most of its length it positively dances with gusto.
07/06/06
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